The bHLH-Zip transcription factor Tfeb is essential for placental vascularization

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 4607-4616

  Steingrímsson, Eiríkur ^a,b   Tessarollo, Lino ^a   Reid, Susan W ^a   Jenkins, Nancy A ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Placenta; Tfeb transcription factor; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MITOGENIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; MAST CELL; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EXONS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMOZYGOTE; INTRONS; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032414526     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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